They made @acs.org journals so horrible to look at on a desktop screen that they are now using the pop-up to obscure the mobile view with the x cut off so you can't close it

My grandfather read Popular Science all his life, and he's as responsible as anyone for me being a scientist. He would have flipped out to see me featured in this article. www.popsci.com/science/geor...

George Washington's famous 'golden suit' was actually purple

The president partied in the dapper overcoat at his 1789 inauguration.

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Folks I am still locked out and my emails have gone unanswered. Hilariously, the lock-out message includes instructions for admins who have accidentally blocked themselves. I doubt the new organizers are logging in to @imsc2024.bsky.social but you never know

asher newsome@iondoctor.bsky.social · 2w ago

I couldn't find my password for the IMSC website, the reset email never arrived, and there was no option to create a new account. So I entered three incorrect passwords, and now the entire Smithsonian network is blocked for suspicious activity

I couldn't find my password for the IMSC website, the reset email never arrived, and there was no option to create a new account. So I entered three incorrect passwords, and now the entire Smithsonian network is blocked for suspicious activity

IMSC 2026, apparently recognizing that most conference apps are terrible (except ASMS of course), seems to have decided to forgo any presentation scheduling mechanism whatsoever

You know it's going to be a good day when you crack open a new gas cylinder and it's over 2900 psi

(J Mass Spectrom) Derivatization‐Enabled Detection of Formalin From Preserved Tissues Using Coated Blade Spray Mass Spectrometry: Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Volume 61, Issue 8, August 2026. #JMassSpectrom #MassSpecRSS

Derivatization‐Enabled Detection of Formalin From Preserved Tissues Using Coated Blade Spray Mass Spectrometry

Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Volume 61, Issue 8, August 2026.

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New paper from my lab, written by Jess Deng from her time here as a predoctoral fellow. This was my first time using coated blade spray and the first of many 3D prints for me (so old it's from before I printed everything gold color) analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Derivatization‐Enabled Detection of Formalin From Preserved Tissues Using Coated Blade Spray Mass Spectrometry

Formalin-fixed, fluid-preserved specimens in natural history collections offer invaluable scientific and cultural insight but pose genomic challenges due to molecular degradation and persistent chemi...

analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

My article is published but I have to ask a co-author for the pdf because Wiley decided it was too expensive for them to email an author's copy

I opened up a PDF of my own first-author paper that I typed on this very keyboard, and Adobe Acrobat Reader told me, "This appears to be a long document. Try saving time by reading a summary using AI Assistant."

Europe is sensible enough to use the metric system, so why are they silly enough to use portrait layouts for conference posters?

Neat! I was wondering a humidity effects when I rented a SICRIT two years ago.

Kermit Murray@kkmurray.bsky.social · last mo.

(RCM) Effect of Humidity on Ionisation and Ion Chemistry in Active‐Capillary Dielectric Barrier Discharge Ionisation: ABSTRACT Rationale Dielectric barrier discharge ionisation (DBDI) in an active-capillary configuration (including the commercial SICRIT… #RapidCommunMassSpectrom #MassSpecRSS

Going through email to add acknowledgements and holy cow I started mapping papers for this in review prior to February 2023

I was never going to pay Wiley to make an article open access, but now that any ASMS member will be able to see it the next calendar year I'm *really* not going to pay

I am drafting the part of my review where I write about researchers being deliberately misleading from the jump or poisoning the well with wrong conjecture that persists for years. I want to conclude with "the PIs are probably too successful now to read this but they know what they did"

When you realize there's a large subject area that you don't want to include in your review

Web of Science no longer links or exports to Endnote Web even though they are both owned by Clarivate. Before I could at see at a glance if a paper was already in my library. Now there's *really* no reason to use Web of Science while Scholar remains the only Google product resisting enshittification

LLMs are obviously garbage for writing scientific results (unless it's a turn-the-crank report, in which case I'm not bothering to read anyway). But I strongly suspect an LLM could believably reproduce the cliches of popular science writing and press releases.

Now that I'm back in office the annual ASMS pin gets added to the map. But there are a couple more keepsakes from #ASMS2026

After the post #ASMS2026 @asms.org Board meeting, we're still smiling. Thanks all who came to SD to make it a great conference! We'll miss Elyssia Gallagher, Heather Desaire, @iondoctor.bsky.social and @lablaskin.bsky.social on the Board. Give us your feedback on the post-conf survey - more 🍦?

Almost time for the Monday workshop Art, Museums, and Archaeology at #ASMS2026!

Does anyone else think that young Klaus Biemann had kind if a David Bowie look #ASMS2026

Like every single history poster ever is printed for #ASMS2026

When I'm rehearsing a talk I want to sound dynamic and fascinating so I just pretend I'm @lars-konermann.bsky.social #ASMS2026

Is your analyte bigger than the palm of your hand? Come to the #ASMS2026 Forensics session at 8:30 am Wednesday to hear me talk about my PhotoGoose ambient sampling system: not my recent JASMS cover article, but the next step in its evolution. Now with a sweet laser!

At the beginning of the week I almost wrote about pre-conference lethargy, when you've got all the #ASMS2026 data and only need to leisurely put together the PowerPoint. But co-workers abhor a calendar vacuum

@benneely.com I've planted my dad's peas for the first time in a couple years, as my stock was getting low because my daughter is a fan. And as of this weekend the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are in the ground

Check out the new editorial in JASMS for commentary on the current moment for science and the US government, the services ASMS provides for its members, and what actions members can take: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Hey, #TeamMassSpec! The #ASMS2026 Online Planner is live! Browse the conference program, bookmark talks, save sessions, and build your personalized schedule ahead of the conference. Your saved schedule will transfer to the mobile app when it launches in mid-May. See you SOON!

Hey, #TeamMassSpec! The May edition of @jasms.bsky.social is here. Read up on the latest: https://bit.ly/3KRQ4J8 #ASMS #JASMS